Apparatus for heating buildings



UNTTED STATES PATENT rEicE..

IRA JAMES ORDWAY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

APPARATUS FOR YHEATING BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 357,332, dated February', 1887.

Application filed October 30, 1885.

To @ZZ whom it may con/cern,.-

Be it known that l, IEA JAMES ORDWAY, of Chicago, in the county, of Cook and lState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Heating Buildings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to4 the annexed drawings, forming apart of this speciication.

The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus which will give to each room of a building its own independent supply of hot air; and my invention consists in the construction hereinafter fully described and specifically claimed. y

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of a house, showing my system of heating buildings. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the furnace.

2o A indicates ahouse,in the basement of which is located a furnace, B, through which pass the air-fines C, leading to the rooms E, F, and Gr. The lues C are entirely separate from each other, and are supported in the heads of the furnace, I) and H, making a continuous pipe or flue in the furnace, the inner surface of which is used to heat the air. A

The cold air enters at the .bottom of these iiues C, and is warmed by the heat in the combustion-chamber, causing the air thus heated to rise to its destination in an unbroken current without being mingled with the air in other lues or chambers leading to other registers.

The furnace is provided with two diaphragms, I and N, which direct the flame and smoke three times across the fines C before entering the smoke-pipe J at its lower outlet.

This arrangement utilizes the heat in the com- 40 bustion-chamber by the pressure or head,77

as well as by the circulation. The pipes 1, 2,

3, and 4 are connected with thel tlnes C, thus Serial No. 181.367. (No model.)

brought in contact with the heating-surface of the heater.

The heated air may be delivered through the u ceiling or at the farthest and coolest part of the room to be heated, as is represented in the room G, thus producing a thorough circulation of warm air in rooms on the same floor of the furnace, rendering it practicable to heat iats and basement-rooms.

A register in the opening Z enablesthe use of as much outside air as is desired.

I do not claim herein the construction shown in Patents Nos. 132,554, 306,638, and 326,055. In the firstnamed patent the hot-air pipes pass longitudinally through the combustionchamber, which has over it a supplemental hot-air chamber. In the other patents the different pipes` shown have independent airsupplies leading either from the rooms to be heated or from Vthe outside of the building, and the combustionchamber has no defi ectors therein, as inthe present device.

What I do claim isf The combination, with a building having apartments to be heated and pipes leading to said apartments, of aheater for air having a combustion-chamber, vertical air-pipes passing through said chamber and connecting with the pipes leading to the apartments, and horizontal defiectors in the combustion-chamber extending alternately from each side thereof,

J oHN G. CULVEE, Oris H. MANNING. 

